We are using Global Art with My Father's World Exploring Countries and Cultures.  It has been a fun art book and covers a lot of the different cultures from all of the continents.  So far we have studied United States and Mexico and we made a pinata, sand paintings, clay sun faces and coup sticks.  The next two weeks we are studying Canada's geography and culture so we carved with Ivory soap like the Inuit.  They would have used products that they found around their home like:  soapstone, bone etc. for their carvings.  Today most of their products are made from soapstone and the items are sold to help support their families.  Over the next two weeks we will be making making maple leaf prints and scrimshaw.  Scrimshaw is etching on Ivory or bone.  

Pair of Scrimshawed Walrus Tusks depicting a sailor and a lady (www.wikipedia.org):
 

So if you are looking for a great art book as an addition to your geography, history or cultural studies this may be the book you have been looking for.  ;-)

I have been collecting some great links for worksheets etc. that I would love to share with you.  Enjoy!!

• Want to make math more fun?  Check out this website:  Making Math More Fun and sign up for free printable math games to add to your lessons. 

• Kids need more practice telling time?  Check out this website:  Time for Time and generate your own worksheets.

• Do your young readers need more practice?  Print off over 80 phonics worksheets here.

• Geography practice at Sheppard Software is a great tool for all ages!

And here is an important link for everyone:  K-9 Protection from Blue Coat.  It is a free Internet filtering system for the home.  It is easy to use and we have been using it for about 3 weeks with great success.  Our computer is in a community room and none of the boys have a computer in their rooms so I felt pretty safe.  After reading this article at Focus on the Family I decided we should take some action and protect our boys from images and things they didn't need to see (FYI - we didn't need to see them either).  There have been a few times when I have been browsing and BAM!  there is an image on my screen.  You never know when we are going to stumble onto something so for all of our safety I did a search and found K-9.  You can also lock down the Internet whenever you want, which I started to do at night just in case someone couldn't sleep and wanted to peruse the web.  I feel safer...so check it out if you are currently without a filter on your PC...oh and be sure to check out that article from Focus on the Family. 

Be blessed,